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Third day. A comfortable routine sets in. See the same security guard sitting in the same spot, make the same joke about their lack of sleep, know where the full box of timbits are, chat to same media folks, yap to familiar volunteers about the games, stand behind the camera and film curlers. My partner in crime and I have a good little media scrum filming routine going on too - she picks who she wants to talk to, sometimes we come up with some questions together, then we film our chosen bits plus whatever the other reporters come up with. Then it's edit, upload, tag, post, tag, post, tag, post, download photos, tag, post. Lunch. Watch some curling. Repeat. Dinner. Watch some curling. Repeat. Bedtime.   The view from behind the scoreboards.   Practice before Draw 8.   Afternoon draw - using the fancy panorama app on my iphone. Rock handles ready to go. Today is the day we start praying for no tiebreakers so everyone can sleep in tomorrow before the semis. I'll let you know how

A bit of a blustery day in Moose Jaw! Today is the day when the standings matter - it's a short competition, so you lose 3 and you're out. I thought I'd post some (as usual poor quality) backstage shots today... Left side of the announcer's booth. I wonder what's written on those papers? Right side of the announcer's booth and TV camera.   Sound man.   Backstage, curlers watching the extra ends of other games on TV before the lunch break.     Empty media scrum area...   and now we're ready to film so bring on the curlers.   My view of the media scrums behind the camera.   Security, keeping an eye on the Tim Horton's delivery. Very important.   Stoughton, taking photos with babies. I didn't know he was running for Mayor. Not much else to report today. I worked some. I watched curling some. The action on the ice has been excellent and I'm having a good time working with all the people here. Overall I'm quite enjoying this change of scenery!

So. Here I am. In friendly Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan for the next five days. Hanging out at the Canada Cup. Wait? How did that happen? Well, as you know I'm kind of an "ambitious" curling volunteer, and I've worked my way up a ways in the volunteer ranks. I had a great time hanging out with the CCA backstage folks at the Scotties last year . This summer I let the CCA IT guy know I needed a vacation the end of November and wanted to go to Moose Jaw, and he made it happen. So here I am. I flew out to Moose Jaw Tuesday night. Even though I'd been dreaming for weeks about arriving at the Regina airport and having to walk to Moose Jaw, there was a friendly volunteer driver waiting for me. We chatted about hockey, curling, volunteering and the city of Moose Jaw for the 45 minute drive in. I checked into the hotel, and then had a late dinner with the CCA IT guy who will be my boss for the week, as well as Grassroots Curling , who is writing draw summaries and updating the

 First Season of Champions curling event of the season on TV this week!! Excited?! The Capital One Canada Cup runs Wednesday, November 28 to Sunday, December 2 in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan - and you can catch all the action on TSN! Winner of the men's and women's event get a ticket to the Roar of the Rings curling trials ahead of the Olympics! Teams are: Men: Howard, Martin, Stoughton, Gushue, Koe, McEwen, and Epping Women: Nedohin, Jones/Lawes, Middaugh, Overton-Clapham, Webster, Lawton and Carey Check out the Draw Schedule and the TV Schedule - 3 draws a day and two on the weekend! I wont be watching because a powerline/transformer thingy exploded in our alley and my cable box/PVR are fried so I can't tape anything, but that's ok BECAUSE I'M GOING TO MOOSE JAW!! What? Why? How? Stayed tuned for more details - I'll be blogging about what I'm doing daily. Enjoy the show!

It's back! Finally, curling on tv!! The first event is one of the slams, The Masters , which starts today!! This is a men's/women's event and here are the teams: Men's: Howard, Martin, McEwen, Koe, Epping, Stoughton, Edin, Jacobs, Gushue, Ulsrud, Fowler, Michel, Rumfeldt, Kean, Menard, Stjerne, Cotter, Balsdon, De Cruz, Laycock, Frans, Cochrane, Higgs, Nedohin, Ferland, Petryk, Hess, McCormick, Virtue, Murphy, Lemay, Tuck, Geall, Flemming. Women's: Jones, Middaugh, Lawton, Nedohin, Overton-Clapham, Ott, Webster, Muirhead, Sidorova, Kleibrink, Carey, Tirinzoni, Homan, Sweeting, Jaggi, Crocker, Scott, Auld, Brown, Horgan, Holland, McCarville, Kaufman, Larouche, Birt, Pottinger, Smith-Dacey, Hastings, Thurston, Sigrist, Nimik, Strong, Arsenault, Harrison. Formerly of CBC and Global, Sportsnet has picked up the slams , with CBC showing the final. This is the schedule , as complete as I could find it, but I'd recommend checking your local listings - and note it's

Only a few short days until curling on tv starts again. The Grand Slam events will be on Sportsnet and the Season of Champions events will be on TSN. The Canadian Curling Association has just launched a super cool new website - CurlingTV.ca . On the new website you can watch videos from the: - video-on-demand from the upcoming season 48 hours after TSN airs the draw - 2011-2012 Season of Champions events: Capital One Canada Cup of Curling, WFG Continental Cup, M&M Meat Shops Junior Curling Championships final games, Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Tim Hortons Brier and Men�s and Women�s world championships - vintage curling games from the archives - interviews, media scrums and instructional videos And it works on mobile devices. Yep. Pretty damn cool.